To Perfect Body

  Being overweight increases your risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some forms of cancer.


Specific food diets

  Are based on limiting your diet to a few specific foods. They are a type of fad diet. These diets do not count calories, are boring, and depend mostly on will power to follow a diet that is so lacking in variety. You may develop vitamin and mineral deficiencies after a few days on one of these diets. Examples of these diets are the grapefruit diet and the cabbage diet.



Varied weight reduction diets : 

  Every day there seems to be a new diet book out claiming to hold the secrets of long-term weight control. Here are some of the most popular :

• [Eat Right 4 Your Type] is based on eating a diet that matches your blood type. This diet's recommendations for eliminating certain food groups based on blood type is not supported by any scientific research.

• The [Zone Diet] is a complicated eating plan allowing 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein, and 30% fat. Although this 40/30/30 plan can be healthy and help you lose weight, it requires a lot of counting, calculations, and measuring.

• The [3-Hour Diet] recommends eating within 1 hour after you wake up in the morning and every 3 hours after that until 3 hours before you go to bed. There is some evidence that eating smaller, more frequent meals can help some people lose weight. The plan is balanced and is fine if you don't mind watching the clock. There is no magic to the 3-hour intervals or proof that keeping your calorie intake constant throughout the day will lead to greater weight loss.

• The [Sonoma Diet] includes a restrictive first "wave" which eliminates all fruits from your diet and limits dairy products. By the third wave, a variety of healthy "power" foods are included. This diet encourages wholesome and flavorful foods in controlled portions and can work if coupled with regular exercise.
• The [Cheater's Diet] recommends eating a well-balanced, portion-controlled diet during the week, and "cheating" on the weekend. It allows you to eat whatever you want from 9 AM Saturday to 9 PM Sunday to help keep you from feeling deprived. Supporters of the diet claim this boosts your metabolism. There is no scientific evidence showing that eating bigger portions or higher calorie foods over a weekend will improve metabolism. To change habits long term, it is better to include your favorites in small portions on occasion than to binge on the weekend.

Balanced nutrition diet plans

Are higher carbohydrate, low saturated fat diets that more closely follow the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association and Cancer Society.

• The [Dean Ornish] and [Pritikin] diet plans are very high in carbohydrate and extremely low in fat. Although these plans can be healthy, they are hard to stick to for a long time. New national guidelines for a healthy diet call for diets that include 20 to 35% of calories from fat, which means that these diets may be too low in fat.

• The [Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid] and the [American ] Heart diets are based on high fiber, unrefined carbohydrates, lean protein foods, and recommended levels of healthy fats.

• The [Mediterranean Diet] focuses on plant foods but has very few restrictions. Learning to prepare tasty, small meals is the cornerstone of this plan. This diet includes a lot of fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, bread (often pita bread), and olive oil. Although the focus of this diet is plant based, healthy animal proteins such as fish, lean meats, and dairy are included. The healthy foods and smaller portions result in a gradual weight loss.

• The [Supermarket Diet] begins with a 2-week meal plan that provides grocery lists, recipes, and snacks. It includes details on how to stock your kitchen with healthy foods and ingredients, easy-to-follow meal plans, and lots of nutrition tips. The instructions are easy to follow and can be adjusted for different calorie levels.